Ensuring Access to Health Care for Patients With Disabilities

Access to health care: health insurance considerations for young adults with special health care needs/disabilities.

Youth with special health care needs/disabilities want what all youth in America want: independence, health, friends, and jobs. Yet, between 19 and 23 years of age (depending on the state), youth with special health care needs/disabilities often find little availability of health insurance or health providers that were an essential part of why they survived and now are looking to participate in...

Role of primary health care in ensuring access to medicines.

To examine ways of ensuring access to health services within the framework of primary health care (PHC), since the goal of PHC to make universal health care available to all people has become increasingly neglected amid emerging themes of globalization, trade, and foreign policy. From a public health point of view, we argue that the premise of PHC can unlock barriers to health care services and...

Competencies of rehabilitation nurses to care for patients with disabilities: a qualitative study

Introduction: Among the members of the rehabilitation team, nurses play a key role in the rehabilitation process and are responsible for the specialized care of patients with disabilities. In order to provide these cares, nurses need to acquire various skills, which are important to know in order to provide quality care. Therefore, this study, through a qualitative approach, has explained the r...

Ensuring Access to Oral Health Care for Children: School-Based Care by Dental Therapists - A Commentary.

Access to secondary care for people with learning disabilities.

A person-centred approach is needed to improve access to secondary health care for people who have learning disabilities. The Department of Health (1995a) drew attention to this issue when it reported that people with learning disabilities sometimes have problems maintaining their health because hospitals fail to work in an interdisciplinary manner with the specialist learning disability servic...